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Festo, su una collina sopra la Messarà: il secondo palazzo minoico per grandezza, dove fu trovato il Disco di Festo, con un'area teatrale e vista sul Psiloritis.
L’antica Aptera vicino a Chania: una città citata nella Lineare B, un teatro da 3.700 posti, enormi cisterne romane, un monastero medievale e la vista sulla baia di Souda.
Il monastero di Arkadi, 23 km a sud-est di Rethymno: una facciata veneziana del 1587 e l'assedio del novembre 1866 che ne fece un simbolo della libertà cretese.
Museo Archeologico di Heraklion: il Disco di Festo, le dee dei serpenti, l'affresco del salto del toro e il pendente delle api di Malia, con un percorso di due ore tra le sale.
Visitare Cnosso, il palazzo minoico vicino a Heraklion: la storia, le ricostruzioni di Arthur Evans, cosa non perdere e quando e come andarci.
Spinalonga nella baia di Elounda: la fortezza veneziana, il lebbrosario dal 1903 al 1957, le barche da Plaka, Elounda e Agios Nikolaos e i nostri consigli.
Percorri la Gola di Samaria, 16 km in una riserva della biosfera UNESCO. Le Porte di Ferro, le capre kri-kri e il Mar Libico. Mappe, sicurezza, autobus e traghetti!
Five easy Crete pairings of beach and ancient site: Phaistos and Matala, Malia palace and Potamos, Aptera and Kalyves, Kato Zakros, Falasarna.
A day in the Messara: Gortyn's Law Code and Phaistos palace in the morning, lunch nearby, then a swim at Matala or Kommos and sunset on the coast.
Two road-trip days in the Sitia UNESCO Global Geopark: Toplou, Vai and Itanos in the north, or Zakros, the Gorge of the Dead and Xerokampos in the south.
Gortyn in the Messara: the 5th-century BC Law Code, capital of Roman Crete and Cyrene, the basilica of Agios Titos and the Praetorium across the road.
Ancient Eleutherna near Arkadi: Crete's first site museum, finds from the Orthi Petra necropolis and a city inhabited from 3000 BC to Byzantine times.
Malia, 3 km east of Malia town: the third-largest Minoan palace, its kernos stone, the Chrysolakkos cemetery of the bee pendant and a beach nearby.
Agia Triada (Tzagarolon) monastery on Akrotiri: a 17th-century Venetian-era monastery with a museum, monks' wine and oil, and Gouverneto nearby.
Toplou monastery between Sitia and Vai: a fortified 15th-century monastery with Kornaros's 1770 icon 'Great Art Thou, O Lord', a museum and a winery.
Melidoni cave near Rethymno: an ancient cult cave and the site of the 1824 tragedy, when about 400 villagers died, with an ossuary in its main hall.
Sfendoni cave at Zoniana: 14 chambers, a lit 270 m walkway, 25–30 minute guided tours, €6 tickets, open daily mid-April to October.
Imbros gorge in Sfakia: about 8–11 km from Imbros village (700 m) to Komitades, roughly 3 hours, with a 1.6 m-wide narrows and taxis back.
Agia Irini gorge in Selino: a 7.5 km, roughly 3-hour shaded walk from the White Mountains to the Libyan Sea, ending 45 minutes from Sougia.
The new Archaeological Museum of Chania at 15 Skra St, Halepa: finds from prehistory to the 4th century AD, the Mitsotakis Collection, €15 tickets.
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Falasarna was an ancient Greek city-state located at the western end of Crete.The area was inhabited from the Middle Minoan…
